Sun Moon Star (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Sun Moon Star (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Sun Moon Star is the story of the birth of Jesus--as told by Kurt Vonnegut. This children's book takes the newborn Jesus' perspective, offering beautiful and insightful descriptions of the world from someone newly born into it. In this book, we follow Jesus and meet the people most important to his

Slaughterhouse 5 - 50th Anniversary Edition (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about

Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to

Kriminálník - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kriminálník je ideální knihou pro čtenáře, kteří s Kurtem Vonnegutem ještě nemají žádnou zkušenost, ale chtějí s ním začít. Tento román totiž neodkazuje k jiným autorovým dílům, jako řada z těch ostatních, ale soustředí se přísně na vyprávění hlavního hrdiny

No není to krása? - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut nebyl jen přední americký prozaik, ale též vyhledávaný a oblíbený veřejný řečník. Výbor z jeho projevů nyní vychází pod názvem No není to krása? Najdeme zde devět autorových proslovů; jeden z nich byl pronesen u příležitosti přebírání prestižní ceny

Když smrtelníci spí - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Třetí posmrtně vydaná sbírka Kurta Vonneguta nám předkládá další originální povídky z počátku autorovy kariéry. S působivou jasnozřivostí v nich autor pitvá soudobou honbu za penězi, láskou a věhlasem, která svérázně formuje osudy jeho postav. Brilantní technik George

Vyletí ptáček - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut opět vstává z hrobu a také v druhé posmrtně vydané sbírce Vyletí ptáček v doposud nevydaných povídkách ohromuje srdečným humorem, kuriózními nápady, výstředními postavami a naprosto nečekanými pointami. Nechcete si koupit naslouchátko, které vám mohutně

Armagedon aneb jak skončil boj s ďáblem - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut zastával celý život pozici důrazného odpůrce válek a jakéhokoli násilí a ve svých textech často zpracovával, s humorem a ironií sobě vlastní, neutuchající a nezvladatelnou lidskou náklonnost ke zlu. V knize je text vracející se znovu k tématu amerického

Bluebeard (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian's fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the reflections of a seventy-one-year-old man. Review ‘Vonnegut is at his edifying best.' The Philadelphia Inquirer ‘The quicksilver mind of

Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers co-written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with

Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the

Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, 'Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul.' He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why

Galapagos (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

'A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.'--The New York Times Book Review Gal pagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors

Tabatěrka z Bagomba - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Dlouholetý přítel Vonneguta – kritik a profesor angličtiny z Minnesotské univerzity Peter Reed chtěl napsat studii o Kurtu Vonnegutovi jako o spisovateli krátkých povídek. I zašel do archivu a ze starých vázaných vydání časopisů vyhledal krátké povídky, které vyšly v letech

Galapagos (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of Slaughterhouse

Jailbird (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Using the laid-back, ironic voice that has become his stademark, Vonnegut combines fiction and fact to construct an ingenious, wry morality play' - NewsweekVonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favouriteWalter

Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic

Pánbůh vám požehnej, pane Rosewatere aneb perly sviním - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the

Armageddon in Retrospect (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards

Deadeye Dick (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors--a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb--Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany

Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative